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Wendt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHSU FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| FAVELL MUSEUM | $90,000 |
| CROSSPOINT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF KLAMATH FALLS | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of Wendt Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +29%- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN3× · 2021–2023 · $141k · revenue +43%
- KIKLAMATH ICE SPORTS INC6× · 2018–2023 · $124k · revenue +66%
Funded once
Oregon State University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $327k · revenue +42%- CPCHALKBOARD PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $150k
- BUBASIN UNITED SOCCER CLUB INCone grant, 2020 · $119k · revenue +1% · 34% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To conserve, enhance, and restore the natural resources of the klamath basin while ensuring the long-term sustainability of the regional economy and local communities.
Preserving the natural legacy of the upper klamath basin.
To create total community commitment for helping people in need by developing a campus and programs of holistic and collaborative services with the goal of self-sufficiency based upon effort and reward.
To build, promote, and support an industry of filmmaking in and around klamath falls, oregon while connecting our community to film.
Klamath bird observatory advances bird and habitat conservation through science, education, and partnerships.
Operations of sports park
Klamath falls bmxc strives to provide an affordable and family friendly bicycle motocross racing experience in the klamath basin. we seek to grow the sport of bmx racing by cultivating a welcoming atmosphere where all riders can…
The mission of klamath family head start is to serve all eligible klamath county, oregon children & families in order to contribute to a healthy, diverse, & cooperative community.
To inspire a deep appreciation for natural resources community, and the arts through hands-on outdoor education
Klamath falls little league is dedicated to providing a supervised baseball and softball program that teaches sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership while developing player skills in a safe and supportive environment.
Serving klamath falls and the greater klamath basin by providing grants and designated funds to strengthen existing and potential new programs in order to effectively enhance the quality of life for families and citizens in our region.
Raising funds for library improvements.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Klamath Ice Sports Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Hope Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAVELL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH FALLS GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Knox County Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF THE KLAMATH BASIN ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH ICE SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds ROSS RAGLAND THEATER AND CULTURAL C ↗
- Who funds BASIN UNITED SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSPOINT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEGASUS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SKY LAKES MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH BASIN AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KLAMATH BASIN ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF KLAMATH FALLS ↗
- Who funds CRATER LAKE RIM RUN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Klamath Medical Service Bureau Foundatio Attn Timothy a Bailey · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · The Honzel Family Foundation · Sky Lakes Medical Center · Community Foundation of the Klamath Basin · The Autzen Foundation · Graham Family Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · The Avista Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Wendt Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ross Ragland Theater and Cultural C — 20% of income from government
- Sky Lakes Medical Center Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Klamath Community College Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Willamette University — 2% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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